Pages

Friday, September 18, 2009

I had a new experience today. I weed-whacked - for cash. I have done that many hours in my teen years but this time, the cash was for camp and not my own pocket. One of our donors called up recently and said he knew we needed money. He said he needed some weed-whacking done. His proposition was that I send someone from camp down to do the necessary trimming and he'd send a check.

Well, summer is over and it's just me and Cheeks and Margaret on the hill now. So, the one to get the job was I. At first, I found it a strange deal. Then, as I thought about this idea of serving it didn't seem like a strange deal at all. Why should we not exchange resources. I have a young, able body and he has extra money. We need money, he needs a body to run around on a hillside with an engine spinning plastic string.

It's a little like the time recently when we paid a friend and counselor to paint our house. He needed cash, we needed some painting done and didn't have a week to take off and do it.

Tomorrow a bunch of us from church are going down to Woodstock to meet a bunch of people not from church to paint a woman's house. This woman's husband recently left her. He didn't only leave her, he left a bunch of unfinished house projects. And so when our church decided to explore a new form of outreach, Matt started talking about this friend of theirs who needs help. And this way of Jesus once again rose to the surface. This way of giving to and caring for those in need. As we do that, we find ourselves, our innocence and our Creator.

Podcasts and RSS

To subscribe to our Podcast:1) Right click the link above and click "copy link location"2) Open iTunes or whatever you subscribe to podcasts with

In iTunes3) Click "Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast..." A dialog box will open.4) Right click in the dialog box and click "paste" in the URL window of that dialog box.

In other music listeners (not iTunes)5) Go to your podcast subscriptions and subscribe to a new podcast. Sometimes you can right click on the Podcast Subscriptions in your player and simply do that from that menu. In other players, it will be a menu choice from "tools" or "advanced" or other menu list.6) Right click and paste the address you copied in step 1